Posted by doolindalton on August 06 at 18:02: FROM p45-cj18.cjnetworks.com
This is from All-Star Report and where some of the top 100 prospects are headed. Unfortunately, KU isn't mentioned with anyone. Jeneka
Joyce and Laurie Koehn are both included in the national top 100.
Our #15 rated prospect, 5-11 G/F Tasha Butts of Milledgeville, GA, Baldwin HS, chose the Tennessee Volunteers over the home state “favorites”, the Georgia Bulldogs.
5-9 2G Caity Matter , Bluffton, OH, HS, our #18 rated national player, has committed to Ohio State .
Talented 5-11 PG Morgan Valley of Rice HS in Colchester, VT, our #22 national player, turned down offers from Old Dominion, and several top SEC schools, to stay “close to home” with the Connecticut Huskies .
#27, 6-0 PF Chrystal Baptist of Farmville, NC, has verbally committed to North Carolina . Reportedly, Baptist will enroll for her senior year at Charlotte, NC, Christian Academy.
Two outstanding prospects from Chandler, AZ, HS, #31 5-9 PG Syretta Coleman ; and #43, 6-4 C/F Jessica Combs , both are headed to UC-Santa Barbara . Next year they will join their former Chandler HS teammate, 6-8 C Lindsay Taylor , now an incoming freshman at UCSB.
Our #36 prospect, 6-2 WF Jennifer Benningfield , Louisville, KY, Assumption HS, chose Vanderbilt over Kentucky, Louisville, Xavier, and Western Kentucky.
#47 rated 6-1 F Aminata Yanni of Machesney Park, IL, Harlem HS, who had narrowed her choices to Illinois and Notre Dame, announced for the Illinois Fighting Illini .
#49, 6-0 WF Lindsey Hicks of Lebanon, OH, HS, picked the National Champion Purdue Boilermakers over Ohio State, Penn State, and Kentucky.
5-9 1/2G Jeneka Joyce of Topeka, KS, Washburn Rural HS, currently rated #50, but will be in our post-summer Top 25, has committed to Notre Dame .
The NCAA Women’s runner-ups Duke Blue Devils landed #56, 5-4 PG Vicki Krapohl of Mount Pleasant, MI, HS. Krapohl might be “the Bobby Hurley” of girl’s basketball.
#57, 6-1 F Courtney McDaniel of Bristol, TN, Tennessee HS, chose the Tennessee Vols over Duke and Kentucky.
N.C. State landed #69, 5-7 PG La Shanta Johnson of Winston-Salem, NC. Glenn HS.
#70 rated 6-0 PF Kimberly Lancaster of Cincinnati, OH, Princeton HS, rejected offers from several SEC and Big 10 programs, and declared for Miami of Ohio .
Xavier landed #75 rated 5-8 PG Allison Lipinski of Garfield Heights, OH, Trinity HS.
#79, 6-4 C Jennifer Smith of Lansing, MI, Dewitt HS, chose the Michigan Wolverines over “hometown” Michigan State.
Our #90 prospect, 5-8 2G Laurie Koehn of Moundridge, KS, Moundridge HS, is headed to Kansas State .
Ohio State has landed our pre-summer #91 player, 6-2 F Emily Haynam of Westerville, OH, Westerville South HS.